Funloving Pearl White (Betty Hutton), working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance.
Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes to love the chaotic world of silent movies, becoming queen of the serials. But the consequences of movie stardom may be more than her leading man can take


This movie is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: George Marshall
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: Biography; Comedy; Betty Hutton
Contact Information: www.k-otic.com

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Dr Feel Rotten - - January 30, 2011
Subject: Uhhg..rumble tinkle...
Rumble Rumble Tinkle Tinkle? I do that in the can! The music is in the wrong era there.. Ruble Tinkle is swing music which hadn't been introduced yet to the public pre-silent films...but I'll watch the rest of this another day. I'm just not in the mood for swing when it's supposed to be turn of the last century.

Reviewer: soulful01@hotmail.com - - October 27, 2009
Subject: Delightful!
This film was a delightful surprise. It's the perfect combination of nostalgia and light-hearted fun.

Reviewer: kareneliot - - February 28, 2009
Subject: Very enjoyable
I was surprised by how much I liked this film. Well worth watching.

Reviewer: quigs - - November 10, 2008
Subject: Oh, Pearl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alot of fun. It be should noted that at the time of those serials (19teens) that the stunts were done by the actors themselves. There was no stuntmen association. An example of that was Gary Cooper whose real name was Frank Cooper. As a stuntman, he paid for his college tuition doing stunts on horses until he broke his hip and that's why he rode so stiffly in later years.